Articles from 'April 2008'
White House: We 'paid price' for 'Mission Accomplished'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House said Wednesday that it had "paid a price" for the "Mission Accomplished" backdrop to US President George W. Bush's ...
US troop deaths push monthly toll to 7-month high in Iraq
By Slobodan Lekic / Associated Press BAGHDAD - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for ...
Americans tapping the attic for spare cash
Auction sites see upturn in desperate sellers hurt by down economy Associated Press NEW YORK - The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come ...
Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City
By Kim Gamel / Associated Press BAGHDAD - Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades ...
Some War Veterans Find GI Bill Falls Short
By Susan Kinzie / Washington Post Two years after a rocket-propelled grenade hit Nathan Toews during an ambush in southern Afghanistan, sending shrapnel shooting into ...
McCain Unveils Health Care Plan
By Michael D. Shear / Washington Post TAMPA, Fla. -- Sen. John McCain rejected calls for universal health coverage and reaffirmed his faith in the ...
Union launches anti-McCain campaign
By Mark Naymik / Plain Dealer A union representing health-care workers launched a campaign today to try to make voters sick of Republican presidential candidate ...
Bush says no magic wand to lower fuel prices
By Jeremy Pelofsky and Chris Baltimore / Reuters WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday there was no "magic wand" to bring ...
McCain Grapples With Gaps in Health Plan
By Teddy Davis and Mike Elmore / ABC News Sen. John McCain is proposing to create a subsidized high-risk insurance pool for Americans with pre-existing ...
White House: No short-term fix to high fuel prices
By Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters WASHINGTON - The White House said on Monday there was no short-term fix to record-high gasoline prices and the United ...
House Democrats work on huge Iraq money bill
By Zachary Coile / San Francisco Chronicle Washington -- House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure that ...
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi
By John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat from her in November, but ...
Poverty Gets the Survivors
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail* / IPS DAMASCUS - More than a million Iraqis were lucky enough to flee into Syria. But in this ...
Inside American Royalty's Security Bubble ...by Mike Ferner
Washington, D.C. — The First Family Security Bubble was nearly pried open for a moment last Friday; but in the end Disneyland remained blessedly undisturbed. ...
Militants shell Baghdad's Green Zone
Officials say an unknown number of people inside the enclave are injured. U.S. and Iraqi forces kill at least 38 gunmen in a wave of ...
Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished
By Hope Yen / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance ...
McCain backer John Hagee tempers Hurricane Katrina comments
By Don Frederick / Los Angeles Times Pastor John Hagee has revised his view of God's wrath, and chances are John McCain couldn't be happier. ...
Democrats Registering In Record Numbers
1 Million New Voters For Last 7 Primaries By Eli Saslow / Washington Post RALEIGH, N.C. -- They lined up shoulder to shoulder inside the ...
Iraqis see red as U.S. opens world's biggest embassy
By Howard LaFranchi / Christian Science Monitor BAGHDAD - For the average American who will never see it, the new US Embassy in Baghdad may ...
MoveOn supporters protest war and impact on economy
By Rick Yencer / Star Press MUNCIE, IN -- Stacy Stinson stood on the steps of the downtown Carnegie Public Library at mid-day Thursday, telling ...
Nancy Pelosi's Day Job ...by Cindy Sheehan
PELOSI: I don't even think about it much. You know, I have a day job. We're here trying to... Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi ...
Protesters line up, speak against Cheney's visit
By Dusty Ricketts / Northwest Florida Daily News FORT WALTON BEACH, FL — With a national approval rating hovering below 20 percent, it should not ...
Bush protesters gather ahead of Cappiello fundraiser
News-Times KENT, OH -- About 100 protesters are gathered to demonstrate against President George W. Bush's fundraising event for state Sen. David Cappiello, R-Danbury, at ...
Retired trucker leads one man protest against rising gas prices
By Maira Ansari / WAVE LOUISVILLE, KY — If you had to fill up at the pump you are probably in sticker shock. Once again, ...
Senators Attack Bush Over Oil
Hartford Courant WASHINGTON — Five senators accused the Bush administration Thursday of "coddling" oil companies and the Saudi Arabian government — at the expense of ...
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